Peanut

With a peanut butter sauce and crunchy vegetables, this easy-to-love noodle salad is a surefire hit with kids and adults alike.

Spoon this roasted, spiced squash on a swoosh of yogurt and you’ve got dinner.

A classic for a reason. Our ultimate recipe has nut-studded toffee, just-ripe bananas, and heaps of whipped cream.

This creamy Senegalese rice and lamb dish combines peanuts, okra, and black-eyed peas to build beautiful West African flavors in a comforting one-pot meal.

This sweet-tart salad gets its satisfying crisp-crunchy texture from floral Asian pears and nutty raw cauliflower.

Hot honey is good on everything: pizza, biscuits, and these crispy, low-fuss grilled wings.

Spicy charred tomato sauce inspired by the Thai condiment nam prik complements silky grilled eggplant and crunchy peanuts in this meat-free masterpiece.

If you love the sour-salty-sweet Thai green papaya salad, you’ll love this peak-summer version made with tomatoes and cucumbers.

This one-skillet recipe is fast and furious—ideal for those nights when you have 10 minutes to stand at the stove, tops. The cooking technique is in the tradition of Chinese stir-fry, in which proteins and vegetables are chopped small so that they cook quickly over high heat, then bound together with a cornstarch-thickened sauce.

Six-ingredient cookies for people who don't think they can bake cookies.

The crushed peanuts and shredded coconut on top give a subtle but addictive crunch.

Thai seasonings add punch to this vibrant and herby salad; peanuts and celery keep it crunchy.

What makes this peanut butter cookie recipe The Best? Well, there’s a few reasons actually. We call for natural peanut butter so that you can dial the sugar and salt amounts exactly. Instead of just adding roasted peanuts from the can, we roast them a second time for even more peanutty flavor. And the pan of water in the oven creates a burst of steam that gives the finished cookies the perfect crunchy-chewy texture. Now you know! This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.

You can use any flavor jam or jelly you like; substitute roasted salted peanuts to play up the salty-sweet angle.

The toffee mixture will harden as these cool, transforming into a snappy, crunchy layer that holds everything together.

Believe it or not, we came up with a new way to chop broccoli: Include the stems!